dennis gartman is a very well known guy on wall street he writes the gartman newsletter lots of big banks here on wall street buy his newsletter for his expertise on commodities he was on c n b c 2 months ago dissing hard how because it is nonsense and i'll never buy any well apparently he had to inform his investors that he's basically made a disasters that lost big time on riots a blot chain remember this it was like a biotech company that suddenly out of the blue changed their name to a riot block and that they were going to become a block chain company instead and their share price like soared. anyway 2018 we saw block stream launched a payment processing system with retailers block stream also noted that lightning was live on main that with 60 nodes operating as of january 18th 2018 and should be considered in testing lightning is a way to move because it's very very quickly it's for payments so you can essentially spend your because instantly and with very minimal fees it is the key to opening up a circular economy where people can start earning and spending fluidly so lightni

market watcher dennis gartman with us this morning. i know you're not a big tech guy but i'm calling this a sign of the times, when computers go down, it's chaos, isn't it? how do you account for this? >> what's even worse, when you think about what happened in argentina and uruguay. it's one thing to have your machines in the store go down. it's another thing to have your entire country go down. that's what's happened there. we have to be careful. these things are happening more and more often all around the world. tech is having its problems at times and if there's something that keeps me up at night, it's the worry about the electrical grids around the world, here in the united states, canada, hong kong, argentina, china, as well as in target. these problems are going to continue. they may get worse. stuart: look, you have often said you don't invest in tech. that's not your field. but is this putting you off technology? is this one of the reasons why you don't invest in it? >> yeah, it does put me off. it causes me a great deal of

dennis gartman joins us now. all right, havi've got a weak j report, the fed may lower interest rates and we have this no tariffs on mexico. am i missing something? is there another reason why this market is rallying? >> no, those are three good reasons and why should it not. we walked in last monday and remember, i trade only for my own account. i came in actually short last week because at that point, we had tariffs going on in effect in mexico. we didn't have yet a change in federal reserve policy and now that's all changed in the course of a week. it's been extraordinary. as one of the great market watchers of all time, marty zweig used to say don't fought the fed, i fought the fed, i lost. fighting the fed is an ill-advised decision on my part and clearly, stock prices seem to want to go higher. i'm surprised by that fact but they do want to go up. stuart: for your own account, are you now no longer short but going long, in other words, are you now buying? >> it takes me awhile to get -- to cover so i'm stil